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WAGON SEAT. No. 355,058. Patented Dec. 28, 1886.

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, UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN w. Burton, on KEOKUK, IOWA, ASSIGNOR To HIMSELF AND srErHEn IRWIN, SAME PLACE.

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$PECIPICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 355,058, dated December 28, 1886.

Applioationfiled April 28, 1886. Serial No. 200,434. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN WV. BUNCH, of Keoknk, in the county of Lee and State of Iowa, have invented a new and useful Improvement in \Vagon-Seats, of which the following is a specificatiomreference being had to the annexed drawings, forming a part thereof, in which- Figure 1 is a sectional side elevation of a IO wagon-box, showing the application of my improved wagon seat. Fig. 2 is a side elevation showing the wagon-seat and its support tilted. Fig. 3 is a sectional end elevation taken on line x m in Fig. 1.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the different figures of the drawings.

The object of my invention is to provide a simple and effective device for holding the wagon-seat in position for use and for supporting the seat out of the way of the load of the wagon when it is desired to employ the entire wagon-box for carrying purposes.

My invention consists in the combination with the wagon seat, of L-shaped supports pivoted to the sides of the wagon-box and carrying the wagoirseat; also,in a wagon-seat suspended between the seat-springs to economize room.

To the inner side of-the side boards of the wagon-box A are pivoted the L-shaped-iron arms B ,near the lower edges of the side-boards of the box, and at a point removed from the forward end-gate of the wagon-box a distance 5 about equal to the depth of the wagon-box, so"

that when the arms B are tilted on their pivots the parts to which the seat is attached will be parallel with the forward end-gate. The seat-springs a are secured to bolsters O of the 40 usual description, which are connected with the armsB by clips c,pr0vided with square eyes d, which are capable of being slid on the bars B. The clips 0 extend upward, then outward at right angles, to receive the edge of the 5 wagon-box. They are then ofiset to receive the bolsters O.

The seat D is suspended between the springs a by the irons b, which are bolted to the tops of the springs and to the under, side of the ends of the seat, tlnis economizing room occuo pied by the springs and the seat.

When the wagon is employed for carrying passengers or a light load, the arm B is arranged, as shown in Fig. 1, with the seat-bolsters 0 supported by the edges of the sideboards of the wagon-box; but when it is desired to use the wagon for the transportation offreight or produce the arm B is tilted on its pivot, as shown in Fig. 2, with its angled end parallel with the bottom of the wagon-box and with the seat-supporting portion parallel with the forward end-gate of the box, thus holding the seat out of the way over the forward end of the wagon-box.

By means of my improvement the seat is always connected with the wagon-box, and is not therefore liable to be separated from the box and lost or forgotten.

It is obvious that the proportions of the two parts of the arms B may be varied to adapt 7o them to wagonboxes of different sizes and proportions.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. The combination, with the seat-support ing springs a, of the seat D and supportingirons b, the irons being arranged to sustain the bottom of the seat below the top of the springs, substantially as herein shown and described.

2. The oombination,with the angled arms B and seat-bolsters O, of the clips c,arranged to slide on the bars B and embrace the edge of the wagonbox, substantially as herein shown and described.

3. The combination,with thewagon-box and boxseat, of an angled arm, B, pivoted to the wagon-box and adjustably attached to the wagon-seat, the short arm of the arm B being made of a length to adapt it to the box to which c it is applied, substantially as herein shown and described.

JOHN W. BUN OH.

Witnesses:

J. G. GARRETSON, J. L. MULLER. 

